Improvement in carpet-rag loopers



v w. CLAYTON, Jr.

Carpet-Rag Loupers. N0.140,889. PatentedJuIy15,1873.

AM. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC no. N mbssom/E's Pmzcass) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CLAYTON, JB., OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-RAG LOOPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,889, dated July 15, 1873; application filed February 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CLAYTON, Jr., of Bristol, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Tool, of which the following is a specification:

In my improved tool there is arranged a car pet-rag looper, button-hole cutter, sewing clamp, and a quilt-frame holder, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation, showing the carpet-rag looper. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a rear'elevation, of a detached portion of my invention.

A designates the clamp or clamping-frame, provided with two arms, a a, one of which is provided with a screw, b. I

By placing the clamp A upon the edge of a table or bench so that the arms a a embrace it, and then. turning up the screw 1 the device may be firmly clamped thereon, when it will be in convenient position for use.

I also provide the frame of the clamp A with a swinging cam, c, the lower end of which engages with the upper one of the arms a a, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This part of my device is used for a sewing-clamp.

By placing the cloth, or other work desired to be held, between the cam c and armc, and drawing it to the left, (see Fig. 3,) the cam will be forced upon the arm with sufficient force to hold the work. By drawing the work to the right the cam will release its hold.

Upon the front of the clamp A I place a pointed blade, B, and fit it to slide'vertically therein by means of a groove or properly-constructed guides or ways. I also form a slot in the upright part of the clamp A, through which slot and the blade B a bolt, d, passes, the bolt being provided with a thumb-nut, e, by means of which the blade may be secured either in an extended position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or closed wholly within the frame by sliding the blade down into the position indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1, when theblade will be out of the way.

If desired, other well-known means may be used to secure the blade in place, such as a slot in the blade, and a set-screw passing band a set-screw may pass so as to bear' against the blade, &c.

In order to use my device as a carpet-rag looper the blade is extended, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The ends of the rags which are to be united are placed together, lapping each other, and then forced upon the blade until they pass below the aperture g, Fig. 1, the blade passing through the ends of both rags thus lapped. The opposite end of the under rag is passed through the aperture g,as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, when the lapped ends are pulled off the blade. In pulling them off, the end of the rag which is threaded in the aperture or eye 9 is drawn through the puncture made by the blade. By drawing up the loop thus formed the ends of the rags will be found to be firmly united.

This same device may also be used for a button-hole cutter. I set the blade B, by means of thumb-nut c, with that part of it which is as wide as the size of the hole desired to be out immediately opposite the top of the frame, and then force the point of the blade through the cloth, and draw the cloth downward until it strikes the top of the frame A, which answers for a gage. It will be seen that, as the point of the blade is tapering, by setting it so as to project more or less holes of different sizes may be cut. Y

The general arrangement of the parts is such that when the blade is dropped down there are but few projecting portions, and these are not prominent, so that the device may be conveniently used for the simple purposes of 'an ordinary clamp or quilt-frame holder.

I claim as my invention- The tool herein shown, consisting of a carpet-rag looper, button-hole cutter, and quiltframe holder, either with or without the sewin g-clamp, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM CLAYTON, JR.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL P. NEWELL, WILLIAM REYNOLDS. 

